The worst videogame TV shows of the decade

We live in an Internet-driven world. A world in which there's really only one good reason for television to bother discussing videogames, and that's to paint every possible broadcast moment with footage of Olivia Munn's face.

Yet shows about consoles and computing continue to be churned out the digestive tract of production companies, and they're now being made for the extremes of the gamer spectrum. From the hardcore guild leader to the casual guy who just wants press releases read out loud to him because he can't be bothered typing letters into a search engine.

So let's take a look at the gaming programs that modern television has tried to inflict upon us over the past ten years.

Am I one of the few that doesn't dislike Kevin Pereria? I know people call him a douche, and I hate douche bags as much as the next guy and am certainly not a douche myself (at least not in the widely accepted terms of what qualifies a douche) but here are my counter arguments against it. Similarly to what the article stated, he actually has a good amount of knowledge about all things tech and video games related. Also, he doesn't just hound after olivia like one might expect. She may be pretty, but she's also retarded, and its nice to see him have fun at her expense. If he were a douche he'd likely just be trying to get in her pants 24-7. I might be one of the few, but that whole show doesn't really bother me, its actually kidna funny sometimes.

Also, I do miss the days of Leo and Patrick. I don't think the problem is AotS. Rather its the 4 hours of cops programming they air throughout the day.

I agree with you. The problem with G4 is that they have moved away from the programming that made them popular with the gaming crowd. They really only have 2 shows that would come close to catering to gamers...and the rest is just filler. I thought that this would be the place to see live gaming tournaments, videogame news casts (could be like N4g...but just with actual hosts), talk shows with devs, even reality shows like The Tester (which is like a train wreck that I can't stop watching)...but desire for mass audience takes over and we get re-runs of cops and grown men breaking things with their bodies. I don't have a problem with Kevin and Olivia (I think they work well together). I just can't watch them on a daily basis. It's kinda like eating rich foods. You can only stomach so much before you start getting ill!*LOL*

Yeah, G4 used to be great and it saddens me to see how much they have fallen. Icons used to be one of my favorite videogame related shows... until the moment it stopped talking about videogames, that is.

4. whats up with all these Bit**ing articles lately, i this,hate on final fantasy , i recently seen a article say that uncharted is not the best game ever, seriously who give a flying F**k.

and then there's that stupid article saying "10 reason why you should date a female gamer",N4g just approval anything lately, it's ok for fanboys to Bi*** and whine but really ludicrous when so called "journalist" BI*** and Whine

Funny how they mention Attack of the Show which isn't even a gaming show but leave out the horrible X-Play. X-Play is one of the most inconsistent review shows EVER. They will do a review and have NOTHING nice to say about the game and end up giving it a 5/5 and then they will do a review with nothing but praise and give it a 4/5.

I liked the show Victor Lucas and Tommy Tallarico hosted(I think it was called Judgment Day here). They normally gave a good amount of time to the review(something X-Play doesn't they jam a review in a 2 minute or so segment regardless of if the game fits the time frame or not) And because it was 2 very different people reviewing the game you had 2 different points of reference and when both of them agreed the game was incredible you could be sure the game was something special.

Old G4 was the best. I frikkin' loved Arena. I remember they played the original COD on PC as well as other games like mechwarrior. Man watching that was the best. The G4 now is a network for tools, by tools. G4 sucks donkey schlong. I mean look at this picture, Kevin looks like a god damn douche with that fohawk. Christ.

Attack of the Show is not a videogame show. They have maybe 15 minutes or less of game coverage a week (4 hour long shows). Calling AotS a bad videogame show is like calling The Tonight Show a bad news program.

I actually like aots and X-Play, Don't know what these dudes are talking about. if you don't like the TV shows watch the podcasts Feedback is up every Wednesday, some of the best conversations on games. BTW AotS isn't a game show Fail.

I wouldn't call The Tester a videogame show. It's more like the dumb reality shows on TV. I haven't bothered to watch an episode yet though since I hate those dumb shows. Do they even play videogames? All the previews I've seen show them doing non-gaming things.

You're wrong. Morgan Webb and Adam Sessler go together because they are both hardcore gamers.

Olivia Munn is not a gamer. She's a set piece to get ratings and views. Maid outfits and jumping into pies, deepthroating hotdogs, blahblah. & Kevin might be a gamer, but he's only on AotS to disguise the already pretty obvious whoring going on.

I don't hate Olivia, she's funny on occasion, and obviously good looking. But, Morgan Webb is the actual gamer, and she's hott, too, and I've never seen her deepthroat a hot dog. She doesn't need to, because she actually has the knowledge.

Plus, when they do their CES coverage or E3 coverage, and they switch up the pairings of the hosts, you can tell that they don't mesh. Olivia and Morgan are awkward together, so are Adam and Kevin. Or Kevin and Morgan. Or Adam and Olivia. They just don't go well together, at least not on their coverage. It's especially obvious when they go from one of the mixmatches to their normal pairing.

X-Play's okay, if a bit boring to me sometimes. I'd rather just listen to a few good podcasts for that stuff and watch the Japanese game shows G4 sometimes still broadcasts... although they're all looking same-y to me now also. Yeah, I really don't have a reason to watch that channel.

Can't stand Attack of the Show, but I remember some weird thing about Olivia doing a Playboy shoot that they went crazy over on the air. I remember N4G blowing up over the fact that there was no nudity... which means they pretty much owned a good majority of N4G for a few days and a few dollars each, I guess.

X-play used to be amazing. Funnyfunny and actually unique. Now they made Morgan all hot and Adam presentable. No. I want grungy Morgan and weirdo Adam. Now, they're indistinguishable from other teen news shows except for it's about video games instead of music videos or whatever people talk about.

and, you're right. It is pretty boring now. Still kicks the pants off AotS though. So, if they take AotS's time and gave it to X-play, and X-play got their shizz together and went back to what made them amazing.. I would actually watch G4 again.

I am sad to say i remember that show the only consoles they used were Nintendo products they started to get into Playstation when the show was about ready to be yanked off the air. Only reason why i watched it was because they had some hot female hosts lol

Video & Arcade Top 10 wasn't exactly behind the curve in terms of being up to date with games. They had some games on launch week, like Mega Man 7 and Blast Corps.

Biggest problem was the format, though. It was a mess of a show that originally started out as a straight-up competition and ended up being more about promoting anything else while the kids were playing, then getting the results 10 minutes later with next to game footage shown.

nothing like watching cops and cheaters being spammed the whole day. i liked tech TV more. it saddens me of what it has become. i liked their tech shows, their inside stuff like icons and even anime unleashed. they won't even let anybody else take their anime either, even though they don't even show it anymore >_>

it wasn't for the very OBVIOUSLY FAKE LAUGHTER from the losers in the studio audience. It's grating how they hoop and holler at the crap jokes. If they didn't do that all show, I could sit and look at Olivia Munn, she's easy on my eyes anyway.

I'm sick to death of retards flaming over this or that bullshit. If you don't like G4 or AOTS or XPlay or anything else, THEN DON'T WATCH IT!

I happen to find shows like the two mentioned above pretty entertaining. No they're not the pinnacle of journalism for the video game world, but that's because THAT SH*T DOESN'T EXIST! We like a hobby that's about on equal footing with Scrabble and Yahtzee... hence the word game.

I think most of you guys think it's suppose to be solely a gaming show which it's not. Personally I miss the old G4. It was pretty good back when it was G4TechTV but I'm talking even before that. I miss the old shows like Arena, Blister, Icons, Filter, and especially Cinematech.

BTW screw all of you KP and Olivia Munn haters out there. They do a better job being hosts than most other tv show people out there.